In reply to alastairbegley:
I'm in the CC, living in Birmingham but love SW sea cliffs and have been to Cornwall for the weekend, while Avon and Wintour's is an easy day trip. So give me a shout next time you're free and we'll see if we can fix something up. I lead E3 and sometimes harder so should work out well.
Also, it's worth contacting the meet leaders for CC trips as in principle they're open to non members such as people wanting to join, at the meet leader's discretion. The mix and match meets would work particularly well as the idea is for people to turn up without partners anyway. Not guaranteed as depends on numbers etc but worth asking.